Writing super stars

All the children are working so hard with their writing. One group was given a photograph and had to look at the picture and write indepdantly about what they saw, another group were practising their Casey shapes in their writing book and we were so impressed we had to show the class. 

News sharing

Look what came in for news sharing today! 

Dinosaur learning

Today one of the math groups were practising their counting and we used dinosaurs as our counters. We then played number bingo to 100! 

News sharing

Dani shared her news with the class today and even read the book to the class! 

Parent interviews

Hello parents,

Miss Pollock and I have noticed that a lot of the parents in the mornings are taking their child's books out of containers to have a look at them. We encourage you to look at your child's work if their book is out and on a table ready for the lesson not if the book is packed away in a container. We have over 155 books in circulation each week - reading, writing, handwriting, maths and poem books for each child, for our organisation and time management we would really appreciate you not taking the books out of the containers. If you would like to see your child's books or talk about their learning we have parent interviews coming up in week five. At Arahoe we have parent teacher discussions four times a term. We are unable to discuss your child's learning before school when children are arriving as this time is when we meet and greet parents and the students.

Our next parent teacher discussions will be held in Week Five on Monday the 18th and Tuesday the 19th of May. Bookings will open on the 11th of May. You can book through this website http://parentinterviews.co.nz/

The CODE is : L584F

Litter free lunches

Well done parents we have almost all the children in our class with litter free lunches, one child even brought in a bees wax lunch cloth for their Sandwhich. If you are interested in a cloth you can order one for $6.50 at the office or through Dana. The clothes can be re used and just rinsed with warm water and air dried. They last 6 months and then you ca re wax the cloth! 

Dictation

This week we have been focusing on dictation with the children in their small reading groups. We will say a sentence and the children have to write down the sentence, each sentence will have high frequency words and then harder words such as wheel, friend, blue. We are encouraging the children to listen for the phonemes individual sounds in these words and write them down. This is the second step to indepdant writing. 

We are also encouraging the children to take a visual snap shot of words .write it down and then look up to the ceiling or close their eyes as they try to write it again. We had a lot of proud children when they were successful. 

Arahoe Mud Run 3rd of May

 

 

Arahoe Mud Run

3rd of May

 

This will be an amazing event for your family to take part in. Come out and support Arahoe and get muddy! The whole school is being turned into an obstacle course. Photos are of part of the mud run. Your child went home on Wednesday with the following paper skips with information and registration for the mud run on it. They look like this. You can also register online below. 

 

To Register

http://lacticturkey.co.nz/ArahoeMudRun/

Click ENTRY

http://lacticturkey.co.nz/ArahoeMudRun/?page_id=22

Click ENTER HERE (in red)

http://eventplus.co.nz/register?eporg=AMR15​

Litter free loyalty cards

At Arahoe a School we are changing the ways we deal with our rubbish to become more waste wise. Did you know last year we had a rubbish audit and we generated 26kg of rubbish a day?! To help reduce the rubbish in our school we have a litter free loyalty card system. If a child brings in a lunchbox that is litter free they stamp their loyalty card, after they have filled in their loyalty card 10 times they go into the monthly draw for some amazing Eco prizes. Last term children won bees wax lunch wrapper and honey. If you are interested in purchasing a bees wax lunch wrapper made using bees wax from our hives they cost $6.50 and you can order from the office. The bees wax lunch clothes are re-usable and a great thing to use to wrap fruit and sandwiches. Any questions please see mrs Turner. 

Here are photos of litter free lunches in room 18. All children in the class whose lunches are litter free have been given a card. 

Here is a photo taken last year of my year one class holding up bees wax lunch wrappers!

Anzac Day ceremony Thursday

On Thursday at 12.45pm the school is having a very special anzac ceremony on the far corner of the school field outside room 7 ( in front of the anzac poppy display) you are welcome to join us. Today we began to make our very own poppies using paper plates. 

Anzac Day

Today we were learning all about ANZAC day. We watched this great video to explain to the children why we celebrate ANZAC day in New Zealand. On Thursday Arahoe is having an ANZAC ceremony for all the children at school. We made a wreath this afternoon using cupcake holders and black paper to represent a poppy. We will  lay our wreath over one of the white crosses on the field for our display.

Hello from Jaimee

Hi there!

My name is Jaimee Pollock and I will be teaching alongside Dana for the rest of the year beginning Term 2.  I recently graduated from Laidlaw College with a Bachelor of Teaching and I am really excited to be joining such an amazing class of Year 1's!

I have two nephews and one niece whom I love spending time with.  I particularly love the outdoors and my main hobbies are horse riding, netball, surfing and snowboarding.  I also love reading and writing and I am looking forward to working alongside your children with both of these.

 

Yours sincerely,

Jaimee Pollock

Welcome Miss Pollock

Welcome to Miss Pollock who will be joining our class next week . Jaimee popped in to meet the children last term. 

Happy Easter

Have a safe holiday and a happy Easter everyone. Thought I would add a photo of these delightful Easter biscuits one of the mums brought in for the children to eat for a treat was very thoughtful thank you!! See you all next term. 

Look who came back.....

When we arrived at school this morning the gingerbread had come back and were all next to the gingerbread house we had made. We quickly gobbled them up before they could escape!